Comments on: New Toy: Holga medium format film camera http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/ Technology, mobile, photography, travel and anything else I find interesting Fri, 18 May 2012 15:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-24645 Michael Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:20:12 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/#comment-24645 Actually the whole Lomo thing had it's start in Vienna a bit over a decade ago, some guys (if I remember correctly) had done an expedition into the "great unknown east" and came across a warehouse somewhere in Hungary I think which was stuffed to the gills with these cameras. They had no idea what it was and bought a few, then took them back to Vienna and played around with them. Realizing the "art" in the unpredictability of the original cameras they quickly got a little bit of a cult following and had their first exhibition I think in 2000, then they turned this into a business. Not sure if the same ones are still involved or not but it clearly has left it's humble nieche and gotten into the "big business" kinda deal. Having said this, I got a fisheye2 a few weeks ago and it got me back into shooting film... Now I am trying to get a medium format Mamiya from eBay.... Bastards, Digital was so much cheaper. Actually the whole Lomo thing had it’s start in Vienna a bit over a decade ago, some guys (if I remember correctly) had done an expedition into the “great unknown east” and came across a warehouse somewhere in Hungary I think which was stuffed to the gills with these cameras.

They had no idea what it was and bought a few, then took them back to Vienna and played around with them.

Realizing the “art” in the unpredictability of the original cameras they quickly got a little bit of a cult following and had their first exhibition I think in 2000, then they turned this into a business.

Not sure if the same ones are still involved or not but it clearly has left it’s humble nieche and gotten into the “big business” kinda deal.

Having said this, I got a fisheye2 a few weeks ago and it got me back into shooting film… Now I am trying to get a medium format Mamiya from eBay…. Bastards, Digital was so much cheaper.

]]> By: John http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2721 John Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:31:06 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/#comment-2721 I didn't find the Holga kit I got to be marked up too bad....the base camera (with colorwheel flash that was in my kit) goes for around $50 on ebay but the kit came with a number of other useful things like a $10 roll of film and a $20 book (value is debatable) among other things which puts it pretty close in value to the the $70 I paid....although Holgamods.com does look interesting. I didn’t find the Holga kit I got to be marked up too bad….the base camera (with colorwheel flash that was in my kit) goes for around $50 on ebay but the kit came with a number of other useful things like a $10 roll of film and a $20 book (value is debatable) among other things which puts it pretty close in value to the the $70 I paid….although Holgamods.com does look interesting.

]]> By: nomo http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2714 nomo Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:27:50 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/#comment-2714 "Lomography" doesn't make anything at all, except piles of money. The Holga is a cheapo $25 Chinese toy camera they re-sell at a crazy markup (get 'em cheaper at holgamods.com), and the Lomo is a $70 camera from Russia to which they somehow got the world distribution rights. “Lomography” doesn’t make anything at all, except piles of money. The Holga is a cheapo $25 Chinese toy camera they re-sell at a crazy markup (get ‘em cheaper at holgamods.com), and the Lomo is a $70 camera from Russia to which they somehow got the world distribution rights.

]]> By: johnbiehler.com » First Holga prints http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2477 johnbiehler.com » First Holga prints Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:10:10 +0000 http://johnbiehler.com/2007/12/09/new-toy-holga-medium-format-film-camera/#comment-2477 [...] finished scanning the results of the first roll of film I put through the new Holga camera I recently picked up. I was pretty convinced that I had either loaded the film incorrectly or that [...] [...] finished scanning the results of the first roll of film I put through the new Holga camera I recently picked up. I was pretty convinced that I had either loaded the film incorrectly or that [...]

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